Every month Mondaq publishes hundreds of articles by contributing firms from over 80 countries around the world. Award winners beat off strong competition and Mondaq extends our congratulations for the following award.

At the end of every month, for each country, Mondaq analyses which articles were read the most by our registered business readers: 'The Most Popular Article'. The reader may have come upon the article either on the Mondaq site, www.mondaq.com, via our personalised newsletters, or via one of our feeds to 3rd party sites. All readership for this article consists of real, identified individuals and no anonymous readers are included in the conferral of this award. Whilst Mondaq also distributes the same articles through major business systems like Lexis-Nexis, Westlaw, and Reuters we cannot track readership of articles through these systems and they therefore do not figure in the presentation of the award. Finally, 'country' is determined by the categorization of the article not the contributor e.g. if a US firm writes an article on an aspect of French commercial law the article is eligible for the French and not US award scheme.